A great way to spend a day. It's been a while since I've been to a good amusement park. I've done the gauntlet in Orlando many times, and find them overpriced, overcrowded, but still pretty fun, so I manage to go back from time to time.
My favorite park BY FAR is Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. It is renowned worldwide for it's rides and has been dubbed "roller coaster capital of the world." I would have to agree. Great rides, and amazingly, the best rates. You can still get a day pass for under 50 bucks, and a season pass for 120, which is not much more than a day pass at the Orlando parks. The downside is that Cedar Point is only open 4 months of the year, during the summer months. The link, for those unfamiliar with it:
https://www.cedarpoint.com/
I am going in July, and am really stoked about it.
What are your favorites?
Cedar Point rocks. It is number 1 period. We used to go every summer when I was a teenager.
Quote:I'm going to Six Flags this summer this:
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I'm a roller coaster junkie
Was at Sea World Orlando a few weekends ago and they had 2 REALLY good coasters. One of them, The Manta, was as intense as any one I have ever been on. really good.
Isalnds of Adventure in Orlando's Hulk coaster is a good one too.
Quote:Was at Sea World Orlando a few weekends ago and they had 2 REALLY good coasters. One of them, The Manta, was as intense as any one I have ever been on. really good.
Isalnds of Adventure in Orlando's Hulk coaster is a good one too.
I've been on the Hulk more times than I can count. Its definitely one of the world's best coasters. I haven't been to SeaWorld since I was 10. I'll have to look in to The Manta.
Knott's Berry Farm. When I first went back in 2006, Ghostrider was the absolute best wooden coaster out there. Now it's supposedly gone to garbage, as so many of that manufacturer's rides have (there's a reason the designer went out of business), but back then, wow, that sucker was fast.
I also enjoyed Magic Mountain outside of LA, but there's nothing there that made me want to brave the Bloods and Crips who inhabit the place again. Wild Adventures will always have a special place in my heart given that it's the park I spent most of high school finding reasons to visit. I've also got a soft spot for Elitch Gardens in Denver. There's nothing particularly noteworthy there, but I did kind of propose to my wife at the base of a roller coaster there. The coaster was moved to Coney Island before we could visit again, so a trip to New York is in our future.
One of the coolest parks I've ever been to was Ghost Town in the Sky, up in the mountains of NC (our honeymoon, ironically enough). Again, nothing spectacularly incredible about the park itself, aside from the fact that it's located on top of a freaking mountain, and you have to take a chairlift to get in or out. If only their roller coaster had been up and running while we were there...it starts out by dropping you down the side of a mountain. Can't be all bad.
Quote:I've been on the Hulk more times than I can count. Its definitely one of the world's best coasters. I haven't been to SeaWorld since I was 10. I'll have to look in to The Manta.
Yea, I was pleasantly surprised. You sit down in it, and then it pulls your seat back so you are facing the ground. Then, as you go up the first hill, you are staring straight down, with nothing between you and the ground but the straps. This clip from YouTube doesn't give it justice, but gives you an idea.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvKVACHKX...2107137339
I was a roller coaster fiend as a young person. Now I can barely ride the log flume without feeling nauseous.
I used to live down in Miami as a kid and we used to go to 6 Flags Atlantis in Hollywood.. Of course it was nothing like the 6 Flags today, long before the roller coasters but back then it was still a great time. Wave pool and water slides.. Was the bomb back then... I sure miss it..
This was basically it. And this is the same park I found on the internet.. It's shut down now, but good memories..
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Quote:I was a roller coaster fiend as a young person. Now I can barely ride the log flume without feeling nauseous.
How about the log ride? You still partake in that?
Quote:I was a roller coaster fiend as a young person. Now I can barely ride the log flume without feeling nauseous.
Same here. That being said I like Great America over here.
Disney freak here.
Kennywood in western Pa. is a pretty cool park too.
Quote:How about the log ride? You still partake in that?
Don't you get smart with me.
I'm dying to hear TMD's review of this gem. You just know he's been there and has a story or two.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhN0YI0FpDE
I think that's him below the waterslide at the end of the commercial (0:50 mark.)
Quote:I'm dying to hear TMD's review of this gem. You just know he's been there and has a story or two.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhN0YI0FpDE
I think that's him below the waterslide at the end of the commercial (0:50 mark.)
That was hilarious.
Quote:I was a roller coaster fiend as a young person. Now I can barely ride the log flume without feeling nauseous.
I have a somewhat similar situation. I used to spend the majority of the day on any and every roller coaster at whatever amusement park I was at. Then in 1999 I screwed up my back on the roller coaster at the New York New York Casino in Vegas and my sciatic nerve has been bothering me, to some extent, ever since.
So, needless to say, I've been extremely leery about going on one since. I've been on maybe 5 roller coasters since and they haven't been of a real intense variety.
Quote:I was a roller coaster fiend as a young person. Now I can barely ride the log flume without feeling nauseous.
I am that way with rides that go in circles, (fair rides, dumbo at Disney, tea cups, swings etc.). I use to love them and ride them all the time. I haven't been about to for at least 10 years now. It's probably better for the others on the ride too, they'd get covered in my lunch.
Luckily I am good on all the other rides and attractions. Last trip to Disney we went around Christmas and we walked onto several of the roller coasters and splash mountain and had a good time.
Last summer, I took a trip with my two buddies to Busch Gardens. They had never been there before and I haven't been there since my 8th grade class trip, which was in 2002. But it was really fun. They have some pretty good roller coasters there too. One of my friends freaked out on one of them and it was hilarious.
When I used to live in Jersey, my family and I would take trips to PA to go to Dorney Park. They have one of the best roller coasters in the US there in Steel Force. Last time I was there was like in 2008 or 2009 or something. Really is a great ride.
Never been to Cedar Point before. Been dying to go there.
Like some of the posters on here, my affinity for coasters has diminished over time. I would ride any coaster, any time. Now, there's just no appeal to it.
That being said, some of my favorite parks are Elitch's Gardens in downtown Denver - seriously, what genius decided to put a park in downtown Denver?!?! - and King's Dominion just outside of Richmond, VA. The reason that I like those is because it joins the Water Park with the "regular" park. Ride a few coasters and you're all hot and sweaty? Go take a dip in the wave pool, ride a log flume, and then get back to riding.
Genius!
I've always loved Busch Gardens in Tampa.